Farm Worker

CHRISTMAS TREE OPERATIONS: Lift and carry 80-pound trees continuously throughout the day and after dark with lighting provided. Cut trees using hand saw or chainsaw. Bundle trees, prepare for transport, and load them into containers. Field work and clean up. Maintain a safe and healthy work area and report any safety concerns to the supervisor. Other job specifications include: 1. Workers will perform maintenance in Christmas tree fields and related product grown for Christmas sales fields including cone picking, weeding, hoeing with long-handled hoes, trunk painting, spreading fertilizer, culturing Christmas trees, base pruning and tagging Christmas trees. 2. Workers must be able to use hand pruners, machetes and other hand tools involved with the harvesting and culturing of Christmas trees. 3. Christmas tree/related produce operations, workers must harvest/cut full-grown trees/product, lift, and carry trees up to 80 pounds, and load them into a container, continuously throughout the day. 4. Provide general labor to assist in planting new trees by clearing property, planting seedlings, assembling trellises, installing irrigation, spreading of composted material and other labor considered necessary to develop new properties. 5. Cares for trees during the growing process - recognize tree diseases. 6. Farm clean up tasks include picking up garbage around the field and harvest landings and cutting and burning unmarketable trees located in clear-cut sections. 7. Spot weed spraying, Limb removal, hoeing weeds, maintaining areas at the Shop, Office, or Housing. 8. Maintain a safe and healthy work area and report any safety concerns to the supervisor.

Salary : $18